ex·traor·di·nar·y
adjective/ɪkˈstrɔːdnri/
/ɪkˈstrɔːrdəneri/
- unexpected, surprising or strange
意想不到的；令人惊奇的；奇怪的 - What an extraordinary thing to say!
说这话太奇怪了！ - The president took the extraordinary step of apologizing publicly for his behaviour!
总统采取了非同寻常的举措，为自己的行为公开道歉！ - We are a normal family dealing with extraordinary circumstances.
我们是一个正常的家庭，正在应对非常特殊的情况。 - it is extraordinary that… It's extraordinary that he managed to sleep through the party.
真想不到他竟然从聚会开始一直睡到结束。 - it is extraordinary how… It is extraordinary how little evidence supports this view.
令人惊奇的是，支持这一观点的证据却很少。
Extra Examples- What makes it so extraordinary is that the experts had all dismissed her theories as nonsense.
非常奇怪的是，专家们都认为她的理论是胡说八道而不屑一顾。 - The discussion was about the treatment of extraordinary items in the company accounts.
讨论的内容是关于公司账目中非常项目的处理。 - It seems extraordinary that she could have got away with this for so long.
她居然能逍遥法外这么久，这似乎很不可思议。 - I find it extraordinary that anybody on a murder charge should be given bail.
我觉得任何被指控谋杀的人都应该被保释，这是很不寻常的。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverbs- appear
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- What an extraordinary thing to say!
- not normal or ordinary; greater or better than usual
不平常的；不一般的；非凡的；卓越的 - an extraordinary achievement
卓越的成就 - She was a truly extraordinary woman.
她是位非常杰出的女性。 - They went to extraordinary lengths to explain their behaviour.
他们竭力为自己的行为辩解。 - The film tells the extraordinary story of two people struggling to survive in the Arctic.
影片讲述了两个人在北极艰难求生的非凡故事。 - The response from the public has been quite extraordinary.
公众的反应非同一般。
Extra Examples- The portrait does not do justice to her extraordinary beauty.
这幅肖像没有充分展现她非凡的美丽。 - The festival offers an extraordinary range of artistic events.
该节日提供一系列非凡的艺术活动。 - She must have been an extraordinary artist to work with.
与她合作一定是一位非凡的艺术家。 - I found an extraordinary number of errors in the document.
我在文档中发现了相当多的错误。 - He did the work with extraordinary energy and good humour.
他以非凡的精力和幽默感完成了这项工作。 - He used the extraordinary powers granted to him by Parliament to introduce economic reforms.
他利用议会赋予他的非凡权力推行经济改革。
- an extraordinary achievement
- [only before noun] (formal) (of a meeting, etc.) arranged for a special purpose and happening in addition to what normally or regularly happens
特别的；临时的 - An extraordinary meeting was held to discuss the problem.
举行了特别会议讨论这个问题。 - The ruling Socialist Party held an extraordinary congress in July, two months before the annual congress.
执政的社会党于七月召开了一次特别代表大会，距离年度代表大会还有两个月。
- An extraordinary meeting was held to discuss the problem.
- (following nouns) (specialist) (of an official) employed for a special purpose in addition to the usual staff
特派的；特命的 - an envoy extraordinary
特使
- an envoy extraordinary
Word Originlate Middle English: from Latin extraordinarius, from extra ordinem ‘outside the normal course of events’.